The top six remain the same with Arup's 'AgRUP of MEN' and Atkins Asia Pacific's 'Prevail' swapping places as the new order of places 2 and 3. MTR's 'Professional Passionate Engineers' keep top spot and stretch their lead to 32 points from 5, still not a significant gap. MTR's 'Synergy' and MottMac's 'Motts of Steel' and 'Buckingham Palace' hold positions 4, 5 and 6. MottMac are putting in a strong challenge this year. But these top places are not secure only ONE point is keeping Aurecon's 'Invictus' out of the top six. Aurecon have past form as three of their teams have made the final in the past. Also hovering are Atkins Asia Pacific's 'Awesome' , Atkins' 'Methodical Chaos', Universiti Teknologi Malaysia's 'UTM-TEAM', Victoria Roads' 'Vic Roads-MNW' Atkins Asia Pacific's 'Metis', Arup's 'it's all Ova now', MottMac's 'Ronald Mott MacDonald', Aurecon's 'The Aureconquerors' and OST's 'OST Construction Management' all just a smidgen behind the top six. And there are a host of others just two smidgens adrift of the top places.
The largest percentage improvement was McAdam Design's 'The MacAdam Six' with 27% the lowest percentage increase was 2% that is a relative change of 25% which if repeated would bring the top 56 teams into contention for a top six place in ONE round and there are FOUR round to go. These last four rounds will probably see a tightening of the market, jobs more difficult to acquire, falling margins, difficulty in recruiingt the top project managers so the percentage movements in the performance scores is likely to be more variable. For the 'anoraks' amongst us the standard deviation of the improvement % was 5% in Period 8 we'll measure this to see if the performances indeed start to widen. The biggest upwards movement this time was Vinci Construction's 'Da Vinci Code' moving 19 places. There were of course teams going the other's going the other way with 26 places being the biggest drop.
It's still all to play for. Analysis, interpretation, wisdom and courage or confidence will play their part. Good luck.
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In the sponsors award, which goes to the sponsors with the best three performing teams, Mott MacDonald continue to hold the top spot, but Arup have cut the lead down.